linux-toradex.git/include/linux/perf_event.h, branch v4.16-rc4

bpf: correct broken uapi for BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type

2017-12-05T14:02:40+00:00

Commit 0515e5999a466dfe ("bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT
program type") introduced the bpf_perf_event_data structure which
exports the pt_regs structure.  This is OK for multiple architectures
but fail for s390 and arm64 which do not export pt_regs.  Programs
using them, for example, the bpf selftest fail to compile on these
architectures.

For s390, exporting the pt_regs is not an option because s390 wants
to allow changes to it.  For arm64, there is a user_pt_regs structure
that covers parts of the pt_regs structure for use by user space.

To solve the broken uapi for s390 and arm64, introduce an abstract
type for pt_regs and add an asm/bpf_perf_event.h file that concretes
the type.  An asm-generic header file covers the architectures that
export pt_regs today.

The arch-specific enablement for s390 and arm64 follows in separate
commits.

Reported-by: Thomas Richter 
Fixes: 0515e5999a466dfe ("bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type")
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner 
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Richter 
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann

Merge tag 'trace-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2017-11-17T22:58:01+00:00

Pull tracing updates from

 - allow module init functions to be traced

 - clean up some unused or not used by config events (saves space)

 - clean up of trace histogram code

 - add support for preempt and interrupt enabled/disable events

 - other various clean ups

* tag 'trace-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (30 commits)
  tracing, thermal: Hide cpu cooling trace events when not in use
  tracing, thermal: Hide devfreq trace events when not in use
  ftrace: Kill FTRACE_OPS_FL_PER_CPU
  perf/ftrace: Small cleanup
  perf/ftrace: Fix function trace events
  perf/ftrace: Revert ("perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function")
  tracing, dma-buf: Remove unused trace event dma_fence_annotate_wait_on
  tracing, memcg, vmscan: Hide trace events when not in use
  tracing/xen: Hide events that are not used when X86_PAE is not defined
  tracing: mark trace_test_buffer as __maybe_unused
  printk: Remove superfluous memory barriers from printk_safe
  ftrace: Clear hashes of stale ips of init memory
  tracing: Add support for preempt and irq enable/disable events
  tracing: Prepare to add preempt and irq trace events
  ftrace/kallsyms: Have /proc/kallsyms show saved mod init functions
  ftrace: Add freeing algorithm to free ftrace_mod_maps
  ftrace: Save module init functions kallsyms symbols for tracing
  ftrace: Allow module init functions to be traced
  ftrace: Add a ftrace_free_mem() function for modules to use
  tracing: Reimplement log2
  ...

perf/core: Rewrite event timekeeping

2017-10-27T08:31:59+00:00

The current even timekeeping, which computes enabled and running
times, uses 3 distinct timestamps to reflect the various event states:
OFF (stopped), INACTIVE (enabled) and ACTIVE (running).

Furthermore, the update rules are such that even INACTIVE events need
their timestamps updated. This is undesirable because we'd like to not
touch INACTIVE events if at all possible, this makes event scheduling
(much) more expensive than needed.

Rewrite the timekeeping to directly use event->state, this greatly
simplifies the code and results in only having to update things when
we change state, or an up-to-date value is requested (read).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/core: Rename 'enum perf_event_active_state'

2017-10-27T08:31:58+00:00

Its a weird name, active is one of the states, it should not be part
of the name, also, its too long.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/bpf: Extend the perf_event_read_local() interface, a.k.a. "bpf: perf event change needed for subsequent bpf helpers"

2017-10-27T08:31:56+00:00

eBPF programs would like access to the (perf) event enabled and
running times along with the event value, such that they can deal with
event multiplexing (among other things).

This patch extends the interface; a future eBPF patch will utilize
the new functionality.

[ Note, there's a same-content commit with a poor changelog and a meaningless
  title in the networking tree as well - but we need this change for subsequent
  perf work, so apply it here as well, with a proper changelog. Hopefully Git
  will be able to sort out this somewhat messy workflow, if there are no other,
  conflicting changes to these files. ]

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song 
[ Rewrote the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171005161923.332790-2-yhs@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/ftrace: Revert ("perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function")

2017-10-16T22:11:02+00:00

Revert commit:

  75e8387685f6 ("perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function")

The reason I instantly stumbled on that patch is that it only addresses the
ftrace situation and doesn't mention the other _5_ places that use this
interface. It doesn't explain why those don't have the problem and if not, why
their solution doesn't work for ftrace.

It doesn't, but this is just putting more duct tape on.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171011080224.200565770@infradead.org

Cc: Zhou Chengming 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

Merge branch 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2017-09-04T20:56:37+00:00

Pull x86 cache quality monitoring update from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This update provides a complete rewrite of the Cache Quality
  Monitoring (CQM) facility.

  The existing CQM support was duct taped into perf with a lot of issues
  and the attempts to fix those turned out to be incomplete and
  horrible.

  After lengthy discussions it was decided to integrate the CQM support
  into the Resource Director Technology (RDT) facility, which is the
  obvious choise as in hardware CQM is part of RDT. This allowed to add
  Memory Bandwidth Monitoring support on top.

  As a result the mechanisms for allocating cache/memory bandwidth and
  the corresponding monitoring mechanisms are integrated into a single
  management facility with a consistent user interface"

* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
  x86/intel_rdt: Turn off most RDT features on Skylake
  x86/intel_rdt: Add command line options for resource director technology
  x86/intel_rdt: Move special case code for Haswell to a quirk function
  x86/intel_rdt: Remove redundant ternary operator on return
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Improve limbo list processing
  x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Fix MBM overflow handler during CPU hotplug
  x86/intel_rdt: Modify the intel_pqr_state for better performance
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Clear the default RMID during hotcpu
  x86/intel_rdt: Show bitmask of shareable resource with other executing units
  x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Handle counter overflow
  x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Add mbm counter initialization
  x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Basic counting of MBM events (total and local)
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add CPU hotplug support
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add sched_in support
  x86/intel_rdt: Introduce rdt_enable_key for scheduling
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mount,umount support
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add rmdir support
  x86/intel_rdt: Separate the ctrl bits from rmdir
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mon_data
  x86/intel_rdt: Prepare for RDT monitor data support
  ...

perf/core, x86: Add PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR

2017-08-29T13:09:25+00:00

For understanding how the workload maps to memory channels and hardware
behavior, it's very important to collect address maps with physical
addresses. For example, 3D XPoint access can only be found by filtering
the physical address.

Add a new sample type for physical address.

perf already has a facility to collect data virtual address. This patch
introduces a function to convert the virtual address to physical address.
The function is quite generic and can be extended to any architecture as
long as a virtual address is provided.

 - For kernel direct mapping addresses, virt_to_phys is used to convert
   the virtual addresses to physical address.

 - For user virtual addresses, __get_user_pages_fast is used to walk the
   pages tables for user physical address.

 - This does not work for vmalloc addresses right now. These are not
   resolved, but code to do that could be added.

The new sample type requires collecting the virtual address. The
virtual address will not be output unless SAMPLE_ADDR is applied.

For security, the physical address can only be exposed to root or
privileged user.

Tested-by: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503967969-48278-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/core, pt, bts: Get rid of itrace_started

2017-08-29T13:09:24+00:00

I just noticed that hw.itrace_started and hw.config are aliased to the
same location. Now, the PT driver happens to use both, which works out
fine by sheer luck:

 - STORE(hw.itrace_start) is ordered before STORE(hw.config), in the
    program order, although there are no compiler barriers to ensure that,

 - to the perf_log_itrace_start() hw.itrace_start looks set at the same
   time as when it is intended to be set because both stores happen in the
   same path,

 - hw.config is never reset to zero in the PT driver.

Now, the use of hw.config by the PT driver makes more sense (it being a
HW PMU) than messing around with itrace_started, which is an awkward API
to begin with.

This patch replaces hw.itrace_started with an attach_state bit and an
API call for the PMU drivers to use to communicate the condition.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170330153956.25994-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function

2017-08-29T11:29:29+00:00

When running perf on the ftrace:function tracepoint, there is a bug
which can be reproduced by:

  perf record -e ftrace:function -a sleep 20 &
  perf record -e ftrace:function ls
  perf script

              ls 10304 [005]   171.853235: ftrace:function:
  perf_output_begin
              ls 10304 [005]   171.853237: ftrace:function:
  perf_output_begin
              ls 10304 [005]   171.853239: ftrace:function:
  task_tgid_nr_ns
              ls 10304 [005]   171.853240: ftrace:function:
  task_tgid_nr_ns
              ls 10304 [005]   171.853242: ftrace:function:
  __task_pid_nr_ns
              ls 10304 [005]   171.853244: ftrace:function:
  __task_pid_nr_ns

We can see that all the function traces are doubled.

The problem is caused by the inconsistency of the register
function perf_ftrace_event_register() with the probe function
perf_ftrace_function_call(). The former registers one probe
for every perf_event. And the latter handles all perf_events
on the current cpu. So when two perf_events on the current cpu,
the traces of them will be doubled.

So this patch adds an extra parameter "event" for perf_tp_event,
only send sample data to this event when it's not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming 
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Cc: huawei.libin@huawei.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503668977-12526-1-git-send-email-zhouchengming1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar